The Nation: An Attack on Three Fronts

National weather experts made it official last week: January was the
coldest month in the Middle West and Northeast since the Federal
Government began collecting such statistics in 1870. Though
temperatures moderated during the week, forecasters dashed hopes that
the winter had spent its fury. They detected another cold air mass
poised to strike the East Coast. TIME correspondents took a closer
look at three widely separated areas in which the topsy-turvy winter
has created contrasting effects. New York's Marion Knox examined
snow-buried Buffalo, Atlanta's Rudolph Rauch checked the frostbitten
citrus groves of central Florida, and San Francisco's Joseph Boyce
explored...